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CAMPUS contains over 3000 National Film Board (NFB) films, features and resources in both English and French.
1) Hilma
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Exploring Hilma af Klint's enigmatic life, now recognized as one of the Western world's first abstract artists. She defied convention to live a free life as an artist in a time when women could not even vote.
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"From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times"--from www.imdb.com.
6) Aurore
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Taken from actual events in 1920s Québec, the film deals with a young girl's death as a result of her father's and stepmother's negligence.
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Harriet: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Suffragette: Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything...
12) Zelensky
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The documentary focuses on the president of Ukraine, a man who has become a model of leadership and bravery in the face of great adversity.
13) Priscilla
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When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
15) Dalida
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Résumé: De sa naissance au Caire en 1933 à son premier concert à l'Olympia de Paris en 1956; de son mariage avec Lucien Morisse, directeur de la toute nouvelle radio Europe 1 à l'apogée de la scène disco; de son voyage de découverte en Inde au succès international de Gigi L'Amoroso en 1974, le film Dalida est un portrait touchant et tragique d'une femme émotionnellement complexe née pour être une star. Une femme moderne non conventionnelle...
16) Dumb money
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Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone...
18) Sorolla
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Sorolla's generation represented the pinnacle of centuries of artistic development. Among all his contemporaries, Sorolla was probably the most gifted, which explains his fabulous success. However, artistic trends changed at breakneck speed and the art world soon forgot about him. Nevertheless, the public never turned their backs on him because his paintings, brimming with sparkling light, speak directly to the heart of the spectator. Sorolla's continued...
19) The odyssey
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"Highly influential and a fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau's aquatic adventure covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life"--www.imdb.com.
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